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12/14/2010

The Big Issue of Utility Vehicle in the Later Half of 2010

It is strange that government always wants to do something to annoy its great mass. Nowadays, the ASA of UK had made a decision to ban an auto-marker’s advertisement of “zero emission” for electric vehicle. Will, this action is no different from stir a fire by oneself. Not only these electric car owners, but those golf cart owners, utility vehicle owners, begin to announce. They refer this bill as an outrage and they claim the bill should be overturned! The debate on electric vehicle online is really hot. Here is one example.

“I drive an electric car and have driven that car 18,000 miles powered by sunshine via solar PV. Doesn’t this is zero emission? Both the engine and energy source is clean. If the ASA could find any waste air from this electric vehicle, please kindly highlight it.” This is one of the hottest posts online. And there are thousands of responses behind, one of which is said in this way, “it is understand that ad to some extent is exaggerated, however, this is decided by it industry identity. And to the line that electric car is zero emission, ads do not lie. Not just electric car, electric golf car and utility vehicle are also zero emission.

From the statistics issued by official, sales of utility vehicle declined by approximately 10% from 2007 to 2008 and by 20-24% from 2008 to 2009.

If you are going to blame government, I prefer you do not do that. To tell the truth, the government has already done a lot. If you are focus on vehicle industry, you can find that government around the world announced their decision of sharp cutting tax for electric vehicles and utility vehicles. And to tell the truth, utility vehicle can really has a wide range. In metro cities, it can represented as a personal vehicle for people’s daily usage, and in rural areas, utility vehicle can also used as a farm tool, which, I bet, you can understand.